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After many years of planning, wishing, hoping for a place to build a nice layout I have finally got a place. The home that my wife and I purchased this summer has a finished attic in it that is absolutely perfect for an HO layout. It is a Tee shaped attic that has close to 100 running feet of wall space and plenty of area for peninsula's. And what is even better is that outside of the finished portion is plenty of room for staging/storage/wiring/maintenance. So all that being said, the prototype that I am going to model is huge and I've read some posts here and other places that almost were discouraging but...I am going to model the rail system in/around downtown Ft. Worth, Texas. Being involved in civil engineering for all of my working life, the idea of modeling the infrastructure system around Ft. Worth is very appealing to me. I mean it's not everyday you see 4 or 5 level interstate flyover intersectoins in an attic. And the fact that, as I look at the aerial photo's of the downtown and outlying areas I see just about every aspect of railroading, minus the steep grades of the rocky mountains makes this even more appealing to me. All that being said, who of you out there has worked on a metropolitan layout and can tell me that I'm crazy before I get into this beast? Actually I know I'm crazy so if you could just skip to the things that you enjoyed about your metro layout and the challenges that you faced that would be plenty for now...after you get to know me better you can comment on the craziness factor. In the mean time I look forward to hearing your takes on metro layouts. Thanks - Roy
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